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Battle Story ; Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Doyle
Category: Military
Gallipoli 1915 remains one of the most resounding Allied defeats of the First World War with both the Allied and Ottoman armies suffering in excess of 200,000 casualties. If you want to truly understand this tragic campaign - read Battle Story. Key profiles explore the Allied leaders and their Ottoman ...Show more
City of Shadows - Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 by Peter Doyle; Caleb Williams
Category: Art
In the late 1980s a vast collection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960, was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse. This book draws on Peter Doyles extensive research into these fascinating and often eerily beautiful images o ...Show more
Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle
Category: Fiction
In the 1920s Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the citys most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters, drug dealers, pickpockets and hooligans. These extraordinary images resurfaced in the 1980s, long after the ...Show more
Desert Knight by Robin Schäfer; Peter Doyle; Gunter Halm
Category: Military
The Knight's Cross was the German Army's highest award for valor, and only 0.04 per cent of the soldiers who served in the Second World War received this prestigious medal; even fewer survived. In this extremely rare memoir, G nter Halm recounts his experiences with the Afrika Korps where he was employe ...Show more
Flight or Fright by Stephen King; Cody Goodfellow; John Varley; Joe Hill; David Schow; Ray Bradbury; Roald Dahl; Peter Treemayne; James L. Dickey; Bev Vincent; Michael Lewis; Arthur Conan Doyle; Richard Matheson; Ambrose Bierce; E. c. Tubb; Tom Bissell; Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up ...Show more
Suburban Noir: Crime and Mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney - Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Peter Doyle
Category: True Crime
Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do.Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and ...Show more
The Big Whatever by Peter Doyle (Warwick Business School University of Greenwich, UK Warwick Business School Warwick Business School Warwick Business School University of Greenwich, UK Warwick Business School Warwick Business School Warwick Business School University of Greenwich, UK)
Category: Fiction
As the swinging '60s turn into the '70s, Billy Glasheen is stuck in the slow lane. He's deep in debt to the mob, driving a taxi, running low-level rackets. One day he finds a trashy novel in his cab - and he's the main character! Only Max could've written it, his double-crossing ex- partner in crime. Ex ...Show more
Tiger 1 Heavy Tank 1942-45 by Hilary Doyle; Tom Jentz; Peter Sarson (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Probably the most famous tank of the World War II, the Tiger I was originally conceived in 1941 in response to the German Army's experience in fighting British tanks and anti-tank guns in Western Europe and the North African desert. Following the invasion of Russia, the appearance of the Soviet T-34 and ...Show more
World War I in 100 Objects by Peter Doyle
Category: Military
A dynamic social history commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I General readers and history buffs alike have made bestsellers of books like A History of the World in 100 Objects. In that tradition, this handsome commemorative volume gives a unique perspective on one of the most ...Show more
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